Razor-honing device.



Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

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ItAZOR-I-IONING4 DEVICE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2o, 1909.

Application led December 16, 1908, Serial No. 467,750.

My invention relates to improvements in' razor-honing devices, and, more particularly, to means for carrymg and supporting an ordinary hone-stone 1n proper osltion for honing a razor or vother sharp, e ged tool.

The primary object ofthe invention is to.

provlde an improved Vrazor-honing device which will ena le any ordinary person to properly hone a razor or tool of similar character.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this class which may be readily attached to orV detached from hone-stones of varying length, and, when the hone-stone is mounted, will maintain the V same at all times in a horizontal position, the hone-stone being alsopivoted and mounted in such a manner as to maintain the same in uniform contact with the ed e of the razor irres ective of limited'latera orftransverse oscil ations of the razor'blade usually incident to the manipulations offthe same by ineX erienced honers.

i/)Vith the above mentionedobjects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, andzcombi'nation of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims. j Y

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l, is a perspective view of a razor-honing device constructed in accordance with one of the embodiments of my invention. Fig. 2, a side view, partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section. Fig. 3, an end view. of one of the pivotally-mounted hone-clamping' and carrying` members. 'Fig. VL1, a pers `ective viewl of a modified form oi hone c amping and carrying member. Fig. 5,1 a perspective view of a modiiied form of pivot mounting designed to coperate with the form' of honeclamping and carrying member shown in Fig. 4. Y.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all thegures of the drawings. 1.

The improved razor-honing device, in* the present embodiment of myinvention, comprises a base late 1, provided at its ends with bearing stan ards 2. The bearing standards 2, are provided with base plates 3, each of said base plates, in the presentinstance, being slidably mounted in a longitudinal recess-way 4, of the base plate and adjustably secured therein by means o an adjusting screw 5. The adjusting screws 5 (one not shown), are Lthreaded in the base plate 1, and take through suitable openings in a clamping bar 6, adapted to be drawn down by the heads of the adjusting screws 5, to

clamp the base plates 3, in a well known manner. j

The hone-stone 7, may be supported and longitudinally-pivoted to the standards 2, in anysuitable and convenient manner, said supporting and longitudinally-pivoting` means, in the present instance, comprising a honebar 8, provided on its upper surface with a longitudinal recess-way 9. Hone-clamping and carrying members 10, are slidably and adjustably mounted in the hone-bar 8, by means of clamping screws 1 1, passing through the hone-bar 8, and through longitudinal kguide-slots 12, in base plates 13, ofthe clamping and carrying members 10, said base plates 13, being adapted to slide inthe recess-way 9 and to be clamped in any position to which they may be adjusted by means of the clamping screws 11, threaded into a clamping-bar 14, whereby the turning of said screws 11 will serve to draw the clamping-bar into clampingengagement with the base plates 13.

The hone-clamping and carrying members i 10, in the present instance, are pivotallymounted and secured to the bearing standards 2, by means of bearing-pins 15, 4said Ybearing-pins. 15, being provided with milled heads 16, said bearing pins being secured by being threaded in the upper ends of the bearing standards 2, and provided with conical bearing ends 15a, taking into bearing openings 17, Vof concavo-conveX spring bearing disks 18. The bearing disks 18, are mounted in pockets 19, on the face sides of the honecarrying and clamping members 10. The4 arrangement just described permits of theV adjustment of the bearing plns 15, against the resistance of the spring bearing disks 18, whereby the tension of the pivot bearing may be readily regulated to regulate the lateral oscillation of the hone-stone.

It is obvious that the provision of the adjustable bearing standards 2, and honeclamping and carrying members 10, adapts lli) the device to receive and contain hone-stones of varying lengths. The depending honebar 8, beneath the hone-stone 7, forms a depending counter balancing bar or weight adapted to normally maintain the honestone 7, in a horizontal position. As a further means of maintaining the hone-stone in a substantially horizontal position as against any extended lateral oscillations incident to the honing of the razor blade, the base plates 13,01? the hone-clamping and carrying members are provided with depending spring bars 20, the lower or free ends of which operate in bearing slots 21, at the ends of the base plate l. By this arrangement it is obvious that any extended lateral movement or inclination of the oscillating honestone 7, will operate against the resistance of the spring bars 20, and will be readily detected by the operator in the honing process.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I have shown a modified form of pivot mounting for the oscillating hone-stone 7. In this modified form the hone-clamping and carrying members l0, are each provided with a trunnion 22, having its lower portion presenting a sharp angular edge 22a, said trunnion 22, being adapted to be mounted in a substantially V-shaped bearing-recess 23, of a bearing-disk block 24,4

movably mounted and adapted to turn in a bearing opening 25, of the bearing standards 2. In this form of mounting it is evident that as the upper or largest width ofthe trunnion22, is less than the distance between the upper edges of the V-shaped bearing recess 23, that slight oscillations of the lione-stone 7, may readily take place since the pivot will turn freely on the extreme angular edge 22u, but any decided oscillation of the hone-stone 7, will cause one or the other of the sides of the trunnion to come into engagement with one or the other of the sides of the V-shaped bearing-recess 23, whereby the entire bearing-disk block will be turned in the bearing opening 25, and the friction offered to the turning of this bearing disk will render a slight resistance to any decided or extended oscillation of the hone-stone 7, and will be readily detected by the operator. The bearing disk block 24, may be removably mounted in the bearing opening 25, in any suitable and convenient manner, preferably, by providing the periphery of the bearing block 25, with a circumferential groove (not shown) adapted to receive the inner end of a small retaining screw 26, mounted at the top of the bearing standard 22.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, without having attempted to set forth all the forms in which it may be made, or all the modes of its use, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A razor-honing device, comprising a base-plate, standards carried thereby and adjustably mounted therein, and a longitudinally pivoted counter-balanced hone-stone carried by and interposed between said standards.

2. A razor-honing device, comprising a base-plate, bearing standards carried at the ends thereof, a hone-stone interposed between and having its ends pivotally carried by said standards, and means for normally maintaining said hone-stone in a horizontal position.

3. A razor-honing device, comprising a base-plate provided at its ends with bearingstandards, a hone-bar, hone-clamping members adjustably secured to said hone-bar and pivotally-secured to said bearing standards, and a hone-stone mounted above said honebar and having its ends clamped by said hone-clamping members.

4. A razor-honing device, comprising a base-plate, bearing standards slidably and adjustably secured to the ends of said baseplate, a depending counter balancing honear interposed between said standards, honeclamping and carrying members slid ably mounted and adjustably secured to the ends of said hone-bar and longitudinally-pivoted to said standards, and a longitudinally-cxtending hone-stone having its ends engaged. by said clamping members.

5. A razor-honing device, comprising a base-plate provided with a recessway, bearing-standards provided with base-plates slidably and adjustably mounted in said recess way, hone clamping and carrying members interposed between said bearingstandards, a hone-stone having its ends received and. carried by said clamping and carrying members, means for longitudinallypivoting said members to said bearing standards, and means for normallymaintaining said hone-stone in a substantially horizontal position.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT D. RAY.

IIitnesses O. C. BILLMAN, GEO. II. BILLMAN. 

